Blue Bow
Play a Diddley Bow Today
Music should always be fun. Really, anybody who wants to make music should be capable of doing so. Unfortunately we are taught that, in order to make music, you need to study music tablature, learn scales and chords, spend money on expensive musical instruments and practice loads. But this isn’t true.
Have you ever see any African tribes people dancing to drums? These drummers will never have studied drumming at college. They obviously can’t read music and wouldn’t know a scale or chord if it hit them on the head. But they know how to have a good time. Making music on simple, home made instruments like drums and rattles is what music making is all about.
There is a one stringed Brazilian instrument with African roots called a Berimbau. Not surprisingly it looks a bit like a bow that could be used for hunting. Now this simple instrument is the precursor to pretty much all forms of stringed instrument including guitars, harps and even pianos.
You make have heard of an instrument called a Diddley Bow. This is a very simple and easily made African American one stringed folk instrument. Typically these are a simple plank of wood with a piece of wire stretched from end to end. The string is tensioned with something uses as a bridge and the pitch is varied by fretting the string with a piece of bone, glass or maybe a knife or some other form of slide.
Lonnie Pitchford, a well known exponent of the Diddley Bow would make his one stringed instruments by attaching a wire to the vertical support of his front porch. Diddley bows were commonly made by poor field workers and share croppers in the Mississippi Delta region.
The blues is rooted in simple folk instruments like the diddley bo. Many of the early blues greats got their start in the 1920s and 1930s by playing Diddley Bows. One modern day Diddley bow players who you may have heard of is Seasick Steve. So why not make yourself a simple one string Diddley Bow today and make some music.
Red vs Blue – Caboose trys to say “Bow Chicka Bow Wow”
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